New adventure: Book Reviewing

I believe the written word is powerful. Words have a way of moving people and of shaping ideas, thoughts and emotions. Far more than empty rhetoric, a word fitly spoken in the phrase of my friend, Broderick Greer, can "transform reality."

I have recently taken up a new hobby: book reviewing. While I have always reviewed books I have read to friends and even on my old blog, I now have a new incentive: free books! I am writing 200-word reviews of books for Thomas Nelson Publishers and posting them here and to bookseller websites as well as Thomas Nelson's site. Thomas Nelson provides the books free of charge and I hopefully help sales with my reviews.

My official first book review for TNP will be of Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain: Uncover the Hidden Potential in Life's Most Common Struggles by Drs. Paul Meier and David Henderson. I am about twenty pages into this one and I can already tell it is going to be a high scorer on my chart. It is a simple read, but it is grappling with seven issues that every person has experienced to some degree or less and these issues can either cause the growth or death of a person's spiritual life.

I look forward to posting my first review here in a few days.